Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Whether for its historical associations or its sonic possibilities, the piano has featured prominently at all stages of Maurizio Kagel’s...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2003
Many conductors come to grief in the Third Symphony's first movement, but Sawallisch is a wise and experienced practitioner, and...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
At well in excess of two hours Francis Pott's ''Passion Symphony for Organ'' Christus is one of the longest solo...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 7/1992
This newest recording of Handel’s Organ Concertos, Opp. 4 and 7 was made at St Lawrence Whitchurch, which was rebuilt...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1998
With all the available recordings of these suites on period instruments alone, new arrivals need to establish their technical (let...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 4/2003
This is the third time Zander has tackled one of the great peaks of the repertoire with his own semi-professional,...
Reviewed in issue 2/1996
Dvorak's Moravian Duets were among the first of his pieces to attract the interest of Brahms, and so lead to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1995
If your image of Argentine music is of wild, primitively noisy malambo-like dances, the kind of pieces that make a...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1995
Bartok's two mature violin sonatas emerged during one of the most exciting and richly productive periods in twentieth-century culture; in...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
RCA have a penchant for portraying their female string soloists glamorously (witness the presentation of Ofra Harnoy), and the picture...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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